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The FORTE (Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events) satellite records bursts of electromagnetic waves arising from near the Earth's surface in the radio frequency (RF) range of 30 to 300 MHz with a dual polarization antenna. We…

The photo-meson production of pions by shock-accelerated protons could generate a burst of ~10^14 eV neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observable in the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) or its larger successors.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ryan C. Bay

Autonomous radio-detection, i.e., detection of air-showers with standalone radio arrays, is one of the major technical challenges to overcome for the next generation astroparticle detectors. In this context, we study polarisation signatures…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-08 Simon Chiche , Kumiko Kotera , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Matias Tueros , Krijn D. de Vries

Atmosphere-skimming air showers are initiated by cosmic rays with incoming directions that allow the cascade to develop entirely within the atmosphere, without reaching the ground. Radio pulses induced by this type of showers have already…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Matías Tueros , Sergio Cabana-Freire , Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz

Radio interferometers are well suited to studies of both total intensity and polarized intensity fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and they have been used successfully in measurements of both the primary and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. S. Readhead , T. J. Pearson

A search for high-energy neutrino emission correlated with gamma-ray bursts outside the electromagnetic prompt-emission time window is presented. Using a stacking approach of the time delays between reported gamma-ray burst alerts and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-21 ANTARES Collaboration , S. Adrian-Martínez , A. Albert , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Marti , S. Basa , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , M. C. Bouwhuis , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , I. Dekeyser , A. Deschamps , G. De Bonis , C. Distefano , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , A. Dumas , T. Eberl , D. Elsasser , A. Enzenhofer , K. Fehn , I. Felis , P. Fermani , F. Folger , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , S. Geisselsoeder , K. Geyer , V. Giordano , A. Gleixner , R. Gracia-Ruiz , K. Graf , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernàndez-Rey , J. Hoessl , J. Hofestadt , C. Hugon , C. W. James , M. de Jong , M. Kadler , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kiessling , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , S. Loucatos , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , A. Mathieu , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , C. Muller , E. Nezri , G. E. Pavalas , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , R. Richter , K. Roensch , M. Saldaña , D. F. E. Samtleben , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schmid , J. Schnabel , F. Schussler , T. Seitz , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , J. J. M. Steijger , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , C. Tamburini , A. Trovato , M. Tselengidou , C. Tonnis , B. Vallage , C. Vallée , V. Van Elewyck , E. Visser , D. Vivolo , S. Wagner , J. Wilms , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

The redshifted 21 cm brightness distribution from neutral hydrogen is a promising probe into the cosmic dark ages, cosmic dawn, and re-ionization. LOFAR's Low Band Antennas (LBA) may be used in the frequency range 45 MHz to 85 MHz (30>z>16)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. K. Vedantham , L. V. E. Koopmans , A. G. de Bruyn , S. J. Wijnholds , B. Ciardi , M. A. Brentjens

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-messenger observatory at the South Pole. As preparation for an enhancement of its surface array, IceTop, a prototype station consisting of elevated scintillation panels and radio antennas has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Paras Koundal , Valeria Torres-Gomez

We report a novel correlated background in the antineutrino detection using the inverse beta decay reaction. Spontaneous fissions and $(\alpha,n)$ reactions in peripheral materials of the antineutrino detector, such as borosilicate glass of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-01 Zhiyuan Chen , Xin Zhang , Zeyuan Yu , Jun Cao , Changgen Yang

Radio waves, perhaps because they are uniquely transparent in our terrestrial atmosphere, as well as the cosmos beyond, or perhaps because they are macroscopic, so the basic instruments of detection (antennas) are easily constructable,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Tim Huege , Dave Besson

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a neutrino experiment at the South Pole, designed to detect radio-frequency emissions produced by interactions of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos with the Antarctic ice. The array consists of five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Pawan Giri

The in-ice radio interferometric phased array technique for detection of high energy neutrinos looks for Askaryan emission from neutrinos interacting in large volumes of glacial ice, and is being developed as a way to achieve a low energy…

For a first characterization, we used the two KETEK-PM3325-WB SiPMs each equipped with a 3x3x5 mm${}^3$ LYSO scintillation crystal provided with the PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC Evaluation Kit. We changed the lower of two discriminator thresholds…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 David Schug , Vanessa Nadig , Bjoern Weissler , Pierre Gebhardt , Volkmar Schulz

Magneto-atmospheres with Alfv\'en speed [a] that increases monotonically with height are often used to model the solar atmosphere, at least out to several solar radii. A common example involves uniform vertical or inclined magnetic field in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. S. Cally

Experimental 21 cm cosmology aims to detect the formation of the first stars during the cosmic dawn and the subsequent epoch of reionization by utilizing the 21 cm hydrogen line transition. While several experiments have published results…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 John Cumner , Carla Pieterse , Dirk De Villiers , Eloy de Lera Acedo

We analyze observations of the microwave sky made with the Python experiment in its fifth year of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. After modeling the noise and constructing a map, we extract the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Coble , S. Dodelson , M. Dragovan , K. Ganga , L. Knox , J. Kovac , B. Ratra , T. Souradeep

Multi-detector observations of individual air showers are critical to make significant progress to precisely determine cosmic-ray quantities such as mass and energy of individual events and thus bring us a step forward in answering the open…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-22 Alan Coleman

Several ongoing and upcoming radio telescopes aim to detect either the global 21 cm signal or the 21 cm power spectrum. The extragalactic radio background, as detected by ARCADE-2 and LWA-1, suggests a strong radio background from cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Sudipta Sikder , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana

The ANITA collaboration have reported observation of two anomalous events that appear to be $\varepsilon_{\rm cr} \approx 0.6$ EeV cosmic ray showers emerging from the Earth with exit angles of $27^\circ$ and $35^\circ$, respectively. While…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Derek B. Fox , Steinn Sigurdsson , Sarah Shandera , Peter Mészáros , Kohta Murase , Miguel Mostafá , Stephane Coutu